Table

Registered unemployed, by region of birth and time of residence in Norway. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons in total aged 15-74 years in each group¹
	4th quarter 2016				4th quarter 2017
	Total	Settled 4 years and less	Settled 4-6 years	Settled 7 years and more	Total	Settled 4 years and less	Settled 4-6 years	Settled 7 years and more
¹Note that persons used as denominator give a slightly lower level of unemployed compared to percentages based on the the labour force.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Immigrants, total	28 696	6 162	7 116	15 418	25 461	4 786	6 062	14 613
The Nordic countries	1 404	292	284	828	1 070	186	182	702
Western Europe else	1 842	457	416	969	1 528	318	351	859
EU countries in Eastern Europe	9 832	3 217	3 320	3 295	8 251	2 328	2 607	3 316
Eastern Europe else	2 312	423	311	1 578	2 048	325	342	1 381
North-America and Oceania	260	38	42	180	187	28	22	137
Asia²	7 832	996	1 383	5 453	7 359	981	1 203	5 175
Africa	4 242	569	1 170	2 503	4 231	511	1 199	2 521
South- and Central-Amerika	972	170	190	612	787	109	156	522

Per cent
Immigrants, total	4.4	3.8	6.1	4.1	3.8	3.2	5.2	3.6
The Nordic countries	2.2	2.5	3.1	2.0	1.7	1.9	2.1	1.6
Western Europe else	2.9	2.9	4.3	2.5	2.4	2.1	3.7	2.1
EU countries in Eastern Europe	5.8	5.8	6.5	5.3	4.8	5.0	5.2	4.3
Eastern Europe else	4.3	4.7	5.7	4.0	3.7	3.9	5.8	3.4
North-America and Oceania	2.5	1.4	3.2	2.7	1.7	1.0	1.7	2.0
Asia²	4.1	2.4	6.2	4.2	3.6	2.2	5.5	3.8
Africa	5.3	2.6	7.7	5.8	5.1	2.8	7.1	5.3
South- and Central-Amerika	4.7	4.4	6.9	4.4	3.8	3.2	5.3	3.6